Technology That Will Transform Social Studies Teaching and Learning
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Technology That Will Transform Social Studies Teaching and Learning Presented by Betsey Kennedy 4 th Grade Teacher, Big Shanty Intermediate School [email protected]
Technology That Will Transform Social Studies Teaching and Learning
1. Technology That Will Transform Social Studies Teaching and
Learning
Presented by Betsey Kennedy
4th Grade Teacher, Big Shanty Intermediate School [email protected]
2. Materials and Links
All materials and links available
at:http://TechnologyAndSocialStudies.wikispaces.com/
3. Class Wikishttp://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers
Free for teachers (no ads, private or public)
Endless Possibilities:
ABC Book
History Yearbook/Encyclopedia
Project Organizing Space
Book Chats
Spot to collaborate with other classes
4. School Keys: Technology Standard
5. CLASS Keys:Technology Standard
6. Vocabulary Explorations:www.visuwords.com
7. Word Review/Brainstormingwww.wordle.net
Can be used as a review before a test or as a preview for an
upcoming unit
Pre-assessment option: Students list things they already know
8. Unique Biography Reports
Word art can be used to display knowledge about a particular
topic
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/ allows you to format the
words in the shape of letters (careful about ads on this
website)
9. Unique
Interactiveshttp://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/
Website sponsored by International Reading Association and National
Council of Teachers of English
Huge number of Student Interactives
Everything from acrostic poem builders to timeline creators
10. Favorite Interactives from www.ReadWriteThink.org
11. Other Great Interactive Websites
Created by the Annenberg
Foundationhttp://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/index.html
United States Geography
Indians
Colonies
The Nation Expands
Numerous other interactives available from
www.learner.org/interactives/
12. www.Glogster.com/edu
Allows students and teachers to create multimedia, interactive
posters that include everything from movies to Wordlesto
weblinks
http://thilby.edu.glogster.com/glogsteredu/
13. Glogster Basics
Can register students without email addresses
Students can comment on each others glogs
Glogs can be linked to TypePad blogs easily
14. Glogster Tips and Tricks
Provide students with a selection of pictures, videos, etc.
Limit choices (for example: You may only use the Papers
theme.)
Have students sketch their basic plan before using the computer,
all text should already be written
15. www.VoiceThread.com
Collaborative, multimedia slide shows
Holds images, documents, and videos
Allows people to navigate slides and leave comments:
using voice (with a microphone or telephone)
text
audio file
video (via a webcam)
16. VoiceThread Student Sample
http://voicethread.com/share/1602641/http://bigshanty.blogs.com/kennedy/
17. VoiceThread Tips and Tricks
Provide a selection of pictures in student drives for students to
use
Have students complete a storyboard before ever touching the
computer
Provide thumbnails of the pictures for the storyboard
Have two students work together
18. Easy to Embed
1. Choose Embed at the end of the slide show
2. Select TypePad
3. Login to Typepad
4. Click Post
5. Youre done!
19. Materials and Links
All materials and links available
at:http://TechnologyAndSocialStudies.wikispaces.com/
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